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Did you think Niagara would be Dry?

We visited Niagara Falls today!

And as Sam warned us, it truly is more spectacular in person than photos would indicate. When we left our hotel this morning, it was 80 degrees and sunny. By the time we got to Niagara, we had driven through some rain and the temp had dropped 12 degrees. When we arrived, we were practically forced into a commercial parking lot rather than the one for the state park, by an aggressive flag man. In the end, the parking fee was the same, but we had to walk through a commercial Visitor Center that was made to appear as though it were the official one, and we were given quite a hard sell on a bus tour. In the end, we decided to hoof it, and walked to a bunch of the attractions there.

The rain has been following us all the way, but not continuously. It poured buckets on us between Port Huron and Detroit, but it was sunny when we got out of the car in Dearborn. I should do a post just on Rain-X, which was about the last thing I did before we left (apply Rain-X to the windows). It’s one of the few products that I consider amazing. It makes driving in the rain a completely different experience.

In fact, we did cross into Canada with our passports, and spent the night in Burlington, ONT. But we didn’t do much other than spend a night in a hotel. In the morning we walked along the shore of Lake Ontario before heading out again. Paid for gas by the liter (just to confuse us Americans). It took about an hour to get across the bridge and through customs on the way into Canada, and quite a bit less to get out.